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AirAsia plane crashes into Java Sea

Air Asia QZ 8501 - crash or bomb?
Air Asia flight bound for Singapore lost contact with air traffic
December 28, 2014 - An AirAsia plane travelling from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday morning.
QZ 8501 has 155 passengers and crew on board, including one Singaporean, one British, one Malaysian, three Koreans and 149 Indonesians, according to Indonesia's Transport Ministry.

"AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 hrs this morning,'' said an airline statement.
"At the present time, we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board.
"Search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service,'' said the airline.

The Airbus 320-20 took off from Surabaya at 5.20 am local time on Sunday and was scheduled to land at Changi Airport at 8.30 am, according to Metro TV. Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa told Metro TV that the plane lost contact somewhere between Kalimantan and Belitung island.

Mr Tatang Zainudin of Indonesia's national search and rescue agency told MetroTV that the pilot might have faced extreme weather condition.
The Straits Times understands that Singapore's RSAF will be dispatching a c130 to look for the missing plane.
AirAsia has established an Emergency Call Centre for family or friends of those who may have been on board the flight. The number is +622 129850801
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/...-report-2014#sthash.suCMDJJ0.dpuf

How can GPS lose a jet?
Critics ask how AirAsia jetliner went missing off Indonesia coast in age of GPS
Air travel advocates are demanding global aviation authorities explain how an AirAsia jetliner with 162 people aboard got lost at a time when satellites monitor society's every move.
It should be impossible for an airliner to go missing!
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-New...onesia-coast-in-age-of-GPS-386125

AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes dumped 944,800 shares in Tune Insurance Holdings just days before the disappearance of Flight QZ8501. On December 26, the Malaysian Insider reported that Fernandes had sold a total of 944,800 shares in Tune Insurance Holdings Bhd, with 850,000 shares being dumped on December 22, and the other 94,800 being sold the day after.
http://conservativeread.com/airas...es-days-before-flight-disappeared

Life jacket on one victim (proven false later)
December 31, 2014 - AirAsia victim with life jacket raises questions about plane's last moments.
A body recovered from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, raising questions about how the disaster unfolded. Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4609741,00.html

CJ

Unbelievably steep climb before crash
December 31, 2014 Investigators piecing together what led to the AirAsia Flight 8501 disaster discovered radar evidence indicating that the plane made an "unbelievably" steep climb moments before the crash.

"So far, the numbers taken by the radar are unbelievably high. This rate of climb is very high, too high. It appears to be beyond the performance envelope of the aircraft."

One of the bodies recovered was wearing a life jacket, but later took back the claim.
It seems all the wreckage found has drifted more than 50 kilometers (31 miles) from yesterday's location.

The Plane Had Terrorist supporters aboard.
Adding to the mystery of Flight QZ8501 is a post on a Chinese forum
predicting that a plane will be disappearing from AirAsia's fleet was posted 13 days before the civilian jet crashed
"The International Black Hand" is behind the plane disappearances.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/01...oard-unlocking-mystery-black-hand

AirAsia license in Indonesia might be revoked.
January 3, 2015 - AirAsia QZ8501 might NOT have had permission to fly on Sunday, its flights on this route had been officially suspended for that day of the week since October.
"We will also investigate the party that gave permission to AirAsia to fly on that day."
Search teams have discovered two large parts of AirAsia QZ8501, and 30 bodies of victims have been recovered, Indonesian search officials said.
http://rt.com/news/219535-airasia-large-parts-found

AirAsia plane tail lifted from seabed
January 10, 2015 - The Indonesian navy has retrieved the tail of the AirAsia plane from the seabed that crashed two weeks ago. It was upside down and partially buried off the coast of Borneo. They are also searching for the "black box" flight recorders, which officials believe have been separated from the tail section.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30759166

CJ

Did an explosion cause AirAsia jet crash?
January 12, 2015 - Indonesian navy divers retrieved the black box flight data recorder from the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet. One official said the plane probably exploded before hitting the water and another disputing that theory. They pulled up the black box flight data recorder. The second so-called black box, containing the cockpit voice recorder, is located about 20 meters away from where the flight data recorder was found, but divers have not yet been able to get to it.

Divers recover AirAsia black box flight recorder
January 12, 2015 - Indonesian divers have retrieved the flight data recorder of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501. They believe they have also located the cockpit voice recorder, the second part of the so-called black box, but divers have not yet managed to reach it.
Videos
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30773782

AirAsia plane fuselage located
January 14, 2015 - The main body of the crashed AirAsia plane has been located and photographed in the Java Sea. The words painted on the side of the wreckage confirmed the plane was flight QZ8501.
Dozens of bodies have been found but many of the passengers and crew are thought to still be inside the plane, which made finding the fuselage so important.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30813420http://rt.com/news/line/2015-01-14/#78859

Anyone else find it odd none of the radio-TV yakkers mentioned a bomb or shot down? or a Muslim suicide pilot? We seem to have worldwide protection of Islamic terror.
The pilot PROBABLY blew the plane up - and it was planned - JIHAD MURDER

AirAsia captain left seat before jet lost control
January 31, 2015 - The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the sea in December was out of his seat conducting an unorthodox procedure when his co-pilot apparently lost control, and by the time he returned it was too late to save the plane. Maintenance problems on the Flight Augmentation Computer (FAC), and the way the pilots reacted to them, were at the heart of the investigation.
After trying to reset this device, pilots pulled a circuit-breaker to cut its power.

AirAsia pilots cut power to a critical computer
AirAsia has refused to verify reports the pilots on board QZ8501 cut power to a critical computer system before the A320 plunged into the Java Sea.

AirAsia Black box reveals warning alarms were screaming as plane went down
The contents of the flight data recorder and black box are still undergoing analysis and an official cause of the crash has not yet been revealed. But Fairfax has reported people close to the investigation have claimed the pilots cut power to the computer systems in order to fly the plane manually, after striking severe weather.
What happened next is thought to have resulted in the crash, with the aircraft placed into a steep climb which led to its stalling. Airbus advises against disconnecting power to computer systems because they are closely interconnected.
news.com.au
http://tinyurl.com/AirAsiaFAC

Air Asia flight forced to turn back
February 8, 2015 - The pilots of Air Asia Flight D7172 from Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah were forced to abort and turn back to Malaysia Sunday. One of the auto-thrusters was not working properly.
Jeddah is on the coast of the Red Sea of western Saudi Arabia.
http://rt.com/news/line/2015-02-08/#80843